Awesome Apples

You could eat one of these apples for an afternoon snack and save the rest for your family's dessert. Ah yes, you are talented, generous, kind, and sweet. Bask in your well-deserved praise.

Level:
Easy

Serves:
6

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Ingredients

6 medium apples (Granny Smith apples work well)

0.25 c. softened butter

0.50 c. quick oats

0.50 c. brown sugar

1 tbsp. flour

1 tsp. cinnamon

0.50 c. pecans

0.50 c. raisins

Vanilla ice cream (optional)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Have you ever cored an apple? You’ll need to core all six. Hold the apple on the cutting board, making sure you hold the sides of the apple, not the bottom. Push the corer into the top of the stem. My corer is kind of small, so I push it through three or four times to make a 1-inch hole. Put the cored apples in the greased baking dish.

Put the rest of the ingredients into the mixing bowl. Either mix it all together with the wooden spoon, or have fun and squish it together with your clean hands.

Fill the hollow apples with the oatmeal mixture. If you have extra of the mixture, pile it on top. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Use your potholders to take the apples out of the oven, and let them cool before you eat them. I like to top each apple with a scoop of vanilla ice cream just before serving.